On Friday 31 May 2002 5:35 pm, Bert Bos wrote:
| Steven Pemberton writes:
| > I read and reread the relevant parts of
| > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visuren.html to try and answer this
| > question, and couldn't find from the text any reason why not. May
| > elements with display:inline contain children with display:block?
|
| Yes, absolutely. I do this occasionally to get a displayed, centered
| image:
|
| img {display: block; margin: auto}
|
| <p>Some text <img...> more text
|
But as far as I know, <p> is dispaly: block element, no?..
I believe question from Steven was about code like this:
<html>
<head><style type="text/css">
.aa { color: green; wont-weight: bold }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<span class="aa">some text inside span now block element starts <p>new
paragraph</p> and text continiues inside span block. Is this valid or not?
</span>
</body>
</html>
And, to my best knowledge, this HTML is invalid
Besides, Steven was aksing about such example (testcase blow):
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
html { display: inline }
body { display: inline }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>some text inside DIV block </div>
</body>
</html>
Is it valid? I guess, yes.
How it should be displayed?
I don't know. :-(
| There are implicit anonymous blocks before and after the real block,
| around any inline elements that are siblings of the block. (It doesn't
| matter whether that anonymous block actually exists, in the DOM or
| elsewhere, since CSS doesn't allow you to set any properties on it
| anyway.)
|
| In HTML it is rare to have blocks inside inlines, but CSS was designed
| to allow paragraphs interrupted by displayed material, such as quotes.
| It would probably be a good idea to support that in XHTML:
|
| <p>Some text before the quotation
| <blockquote>"A famous quote"</blockquote>
| and the text continues.</p>
|
| Or mathematical formulas:
|
| <p>Some text leading to a grand formula,
| <math display=block>...</math>
| after which the text continues.
|
| > Or to put it another way, if in HTML <html> and <body> were
| > display:inline, what would break?
|
| Nothing would break, but some properties on html or body (such as
| padding, border, line-height) would obviously have different effects.
But how browser will guess what is page's width? Where it should warp text (if
it should at all)?
|
| Bert
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